Are There Ms Word Password Recovery Demos That Let You View The First Few Characters Of The Password?

I’m looking for a way to view the first two or three characters of a password I lost for a Microsoft Word (2004) document. I’ve heard that there are demos of password recovery/reseting software that do this – do you know of any good examples? It’d be great if I could see the partial password by uploading the document to the internet rather than installing software.
Also, if you know of an inexpensive way of recovering Word passwords (less than $20) advice would be appreciated.

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One Response to “Are There Ms Word Password Recovery Demos That Let You View The First Few Characters Of The Password?”

1. giraffe says:

   June 11, 2009 at 10:50 am

   Microsoft does a good job at encrypting entire files. The only way I know is a brute force attack. You can find tools by searching the net. Most of the tools are free for passwords that are less than 3 or so characters, but are actually minimal cost for longer passwords. Because of the nature of a brute force attack, and because Microsoft does a good job, you can’t recover a portion of the password.
   I cracked an excel document whose password was “october” in about 1 week of CPU time 7 years ago. Computers are about 3 times faster now. However, don’t think it will be fast. If you can remember anything about the password then you can limit the search and make it go faster. Knowing things like
   “no numbers” “all lower case” can make it go substantially faster.